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terms of the watcliiuau ..,.,... year two dollars payable in bni if not paid in advance two dollars nd fifty cts will be charged ,_.. o cements inserted it $ i for the first and 25 ck . sequent insertion court orders charged gsrct higher than these rates a liberal deduc :,. those who advertise by the year rs to the editors inn '"â€¢ p"ft l'a"1 tu treat peacli trees the peach trees are only of a few years duration now after which they wither and die it bas been suggested that grubs are the cause of this early decay and that they can be destroyed by removing the ground around the root of the tree and adding wood ashes or newly burnt lime which should be left till fall and then removed so that the frost can get to them 11 this is properly managed the latter will effect the destruction ofthe worms without in juring the ue-c the above receipt for destroying the grubs in peach trees we find is going the rounds of the newspapers ; and as we tried the experiment and know some of iis practical effects it is not amiss to relate our experience we made the application of wood ashes to some half o young trees this spring first scrap | ua away the ground around the root of the trees as ahove described soon after i aves put out we discovered that all was not right they commenced crisp ing or curling and continued to grow worse and worse after a while a small rcdish brown insect with barely percep tible animal life made its appearance on thi leaves lv - : and as they â– lowly disappeared l leaves began to droop taking tbe alarm we forthwith removed the ashes from the roots to re turn the soil ; and in doing so found the roots highly colored by the effects of the ashes and the hark so tender that it was easily removed with the finger nail we were too late : the ashes had done the work . the leaves withered and dried up and our trees the subject of two or three years attention were all killed but we are not convinced nevertheless that he bad effects of the ashes in this case must necessary attend its applica ; tion in all cases but we are convinced however that a caution against using too ' much ashes should accompany this re | ceipl they should be applied sparingly i otherwise unless the trees are large mis will ensue we would not risk more ! than a half pint to each tree of one or two i wth < mil ones will bare more : hen full grown we have found lhat . on is not too much t uon blossoms we have received from mr lb fi _ rr.ii of mount mourne iredell ; i county a cotton blossom which must have l on the 28th june this is early win we consider the backwardness of .:. the late frost cv_c the ear ms reported to us last vear were h mi it s mel-._n7.ir ; and they opened j on un same day the 28th june so that vv should suppose there is no very ma | terence between the prospect of . the cotton crop in this section of country : ar and that of last year at a corres ! ng period of its growth we learn ; otton blossoms are very plenty in the fersey settlement in davidson coun . tv and that they were probably in ad vance of mr ueid be this as it may mr 11 has offered the lust evidence that they ar put and is therefore entitled lo the lionoi of producing the lirst one prospectuses â€” we have received at our office within the last two or three months several different prospectuses of papers now published and proposed to be published in north carolina which in point of workmanship would have been a disgrace to any printing office in the state twenty years ago we take occa sion ro notify those therefore who may hereafter wish to put out such papers that 1 thev will send uscripts to this office we will do them â– _ a job that will at least look respectable riots in philadelphia â€” the city of philadelphia appeals to be infested with i worse class of rowdies than even new t'orfc almost every sunday witnesses a riot between the rival lire eampanies â– lire occurs on that day it is a matter of course that a fight follows : and fre itly when there is no liie a false a iannis raised that tbe firemen may as and the usual treat be enjoyed â€” a heads and bloody noses are the common results but on sunday the 17th he exhibition was on a grander scale as will be seen by the following account : â€” philadelphia june 17 ippearsthat during the alarm of fire morning the adherants of ihe mova company seized the carriage of clin company and threw it into â€¢â€¢'' d laware about noon the friends ol klin collect d in considerable look possession of the en s'ne house of the movamensing compa rhis led to a desperate and deadly slruggle both parties being armed with muskets knives and various descriptions of missiles they went into the fight !' the precision and coolness of soldiers e movamensing party being headed by perate set known as " killers narched up to each other in reg and alter having discharg bruner & james ) / " k_e a check l.ton alt vouk editors j proprietors ) rulers ( new series do this and liberty is sarc < geul harrison ( volume vi number 9 salisbury n c thursday july 5 1849 ed their guns went at it with dirks knives and clubs a man by the name of gillis who was leading the franklin company was shot through the heart and instantly killed â€” about 15 were wounded some danger ously the fight lasted an hour and a half the line of combatants stretching from the corner of 8th and fitzwater to broad street the residents of which were much alarmed two men suspected of being the mur derers of gillis are in custody the only arrests that have been made as yet though the mayor and sheriff have a large posse in pursuit of the rioters col benton and mr calhoun we subjoin farther extracts from the i speech of col benton they will not : fail to attract the attention of the reader i and if we are not mistaken to convince him that the memory of mr calhoun where his own acts are concerned is at least as treacherous as it is extraordinary the copy from which we extract is not a full report of benton's speech it is fur ', nished by the courier & enquirer and the substance of some portions as the reader will see is given in brief by the ! editors the first portion which we shall quote relates to the missouri question and j is in the words of the courier e enquirer : 'â– in 1820 he says mr calhoun being | a member of president monroe's cabinet j was required to give his opinion in writ i ing on the question of the power of con j gress to prohibit slavery in territories and { on the constitutionality of the 8ih section of the act for the admission of missouri i into the union and which section applied ' the anti-slavery clause of the ordinance j of 1787 to more than half of the whole \ territory of louisiana mr calhoun ' then gave his written opinion in favor of the constitutionality of the act and no whisper was ever heard from him to the contrary until the introduction of his fire brand resolutions twenty seven years af ' ter these resolutions mr benton says were introduced by mr calhoun to make a test for himself at the presidential elec j tion which no northern man could stand j before the debate came on however the proofs of the opinion which mr calhoun gave in 1820 were brought forward to his i utter confusion and the entire prostration of his resolutions these proofs consist ed oi the original interrogation propound ed to his cabinet by mr monroe in his own handwriting and the draft of a letter from him to a friend stating that these questions were answered affirmatively by , every member of the cabinet mr cal j houn of course included in addition to these records is a passage from the diary ' of j q adams stating the same facts concerning the action of the members of mr monroe's cabinet these testimo nies mr benton insists is overwhelming mr calhoun attempts to escape it hy say ing that missouri at the preceding ses sion had presented herself for adminission as a member of the union she had form ed a constitution and government in ac cordance with an act of congress her admission was refused on the ground that her constitution admitted of slavery and she was remanded back to have the ob jectionable provision expunged she re fused to comply with the requisition and ut the next session again knocked at the door of congress for admission with her constitution as it originally stood mr calhoun says that missouri was then a state â€” that if refused admission to the union she would still have been a state independent of the union and the proba hie centre of a new confederacy none were willing to contribute to such a re sult and to avoid it the northern mem bers opposed to her admission were forc ed to propose a compromise which the south accepted mr benton says that every part of this statement is erroneous and to such a de gree as to destroy all reliance upon mr calhoun's memory lie says that during the compromise session he c mr lowndes resided together and that at the preceding session missouri had presented her consti tution made under the act ot congress and applied for admission into the union now this is error the constitution of missouri followed and did not precede the compromise act that act was pass ed march 6th 1820 the constitution fram ed under it was signed july 19th of the same year : and was presented to con gress in the month of november follow ingâ€”congress in that year having met on the second monday in november â€” here then is an error of a year in point of time and a transposition of events in point of fact the constitution of mis souri was made aftei the compromise and in pursuance of it ; and not to know ihat much was to know nothing at all about it mr calhoun says the admission was re lused.and the constitution remanded back because it admitted slavery in missouri this is great error the act of congress under which the missouri constitution was made admitted slavery it missouri and lur constitution could noi he and was not refused on that ground the admis sion was not refused for that cause nor for any thing like it nor for any thing in relation to slavery but the direct oppo site â€” for a clause in relation to free peo ple of color and by which it was con tended the citizens of other states might be prevented from removing to the state of missouri the clause was this to prevent free negroes and mulattos from coming to and settling in this state un der any pretext whatever the provi sion was found in clause 4 section 20 of article 3 of the constitution and was ob jected to as being inconsistent with the constitution of the united states and the , rights of the states as in some of those states free people of color might be citi zens this was the clause objected to and not the one sanctioning slavery mr calhoun says the constitution was reman ded back to the state to have the slavery clause expunged it was not remanded for the purpose of having any thing ex punged but the contrary â€” to have some thing added â€” to obtain the legislative as sent of the state to the joint resolution of the two houses of congress declaring that the clause in question should never be so construed as to exclude from settle ment and the rights of citizenship the citizens of other states emigrating to mis souri mr calhoun says the state refused to comply with the requisition of congress this is more error the state complied immediately ; the legislative assent to the required construction of the objectionable clause being given on the 20th day of june in the same year he says the state knocked again with her constitution at the door of congress at the next ses ' sion and that this gave rise to the most agitating discussion that ever took place in congress this is the very error of the ; moon the state never applied to con j gress again but was admitted in the re cess and before next meeting of congress and by proclamation from president mon roe the proclamation was issued the 10th of august 18:20 in pursuance to the joint resolution of congress of the 2d of march of that year expressly framed to save the state from applying to congress again by referring it to the president to proclaim her admission as soon as she as sented to the required construction of the . obnoxious article the fact is that con i gress did not refuse to admit the state at j all ; on the contrary passed a joint reso j lution at her first session of the presenta ' tion ofthe constitution for her admission " on a certain condition â€” on compliance ; with which condition her admission was to be complete without further proceed , ing on the part of congress and was to be j so proclaimed by the president all this appears in the legislative history of the \ country and was authentically recited in â€¢ the proclamation issued on the occasion now this proclamation was issued from the cabinet of which mr calhoun was a member and appear to have been as completely forgotten by him as was the ; cabinet decision of the same year in fa i vor of the power of congress to legislate upon the subject of slavery in territories j and to abolish it in territories ; for that was the effect of the compromise act of 1820 he actually forgets that missouri was admitted upon a proclamation issued from the cabinet council of which he was ! a member ! and goes on to substitute the | wanderings of his imagination for the le gislative history of the country in giving a supposed circumstantial account of what took place between himself and mr lowndes after the second rejection of the missouri constitution and which led to the conclusions which according to him produced the compromise " to back out or compromise was the only alternative left ; and the latter was eagerly seized upon to avoid the disgrace of the former so says mr calhoun ; and so saying : he postpones the compromise a whole year and couples it with an event to which it does not belong and makes it the effect of a cause which never existed it is postponed from the session 19-'20 to the session 20'21 ; and it is connected with the final admission of missouri after she had become a state instead of being con nected with the preliminary act which authorized her to form a state constitu tion never was such blundering seen 1 we next have a parallel between the missouri compromise and the wilmot proviso : mr benton after thus establishing the fact that mr calhoun gave his sanction to the compromise act which admitted missouri goes on to show that it is in the very words of the wilmol proviso he thinks therefore that this should be called the calhoun proviso because mr cal houn was nearly thirty years ahead of wilmot in its support because his posi tion was then higher being a member of the cabinet because he was successful and mr wilm t was not and finally be cause wilmot's proviso is a weak contri vance to prevent slavery from being where it is not and where it never will be â€” while calhoun's proviso was a manly blow to kill slavery where it then existed by law and where it would now exist in point of fact if that blow had not been struck the proviso of mr calhoun ac tually abolished slavery where it existed by law in all the upper half of louisia na â€” from otj â€” 30 to 49 and from the mis sissippi to the rocky mountains â€” over a territory nearly a thousand miles square â€” nearly a million square miles â€” enough to make twenty states of 50,000 square miles each â€” more in fact than all califor nia and new mexico and oregon put to gether over all this vast territory the proviso supported by calhoun abolished slavery â€” abolished it then exjsting by law and shut it up from the slave emi gration of the south and now what be comes of the dogma in his mouth and that of his followers so recently invented of no power in congress to legislate upon the subject of slavery in territories â€” what becomes in their mouths of the new fangled point of honor just felt for the first time in thirty years of insult to slave states in their exclusion from set tlement to the territories bought by the blood and treasure of the whole union ? louisiana was a territory and congress legislated upon slavery out of a million of square miles of it and mr calhoun sup ported that legislation louisiana was a territory acquired by the treasure if not by the blood ofthe whole union ; and the proviso of 1820 supported by mr cal houn shut up one half of it from slave emigration if that is insult he and his followers have stood being insulted most remarkably well for about thirty years ; and perhaps would consult their own self respect and lose nothing in public opin ; ion if they should continue standing it with like fortitude for the remainder of their lives this action of mr calhoun is quoted to shut the mouths of mr c and his follow \ ers : . " he proceeds to say that in giving his ' cabinet support where his voice was so potential to the abolition of slavery over a million of square miles in louisiana mr calhoun did more than any one man has ever done towards abolishing slavery in the world holding as he then did i the one fifth part of the veto power and commanding as his position was as a southern man and a cabinet minister â€” the largest question ever started of free or slave soil was then in his hands ; and he decided it in favor of free it was an immense boon to the anti slavery party then so numerous and ardent ; but it was not the only service which he rendered them texas was then ours â€” a part of louisiana â€” to the lower rio grande ; â€” â– large enough to form six great or ten com ! mon states it was all slave territory and looked to as the natural outlet of the southern states with their great increas ing slave population it was given to the king of spain â€” given away by treaty and that treaty the work of mr monroe's cabinet â€” mr calhoun being a member and here there is no room for denial and , non-recollection for a long time mr adams bore the blame of that cession a friend of mr calhoun reproached him with it in the house of representatives \ mr adams was then alive and present and soon vindicated the truth of history he showed that there was a divisinn in the cabinet upon the point ; he was a gainst it â€” mr calhoun for it â€” and mr calhoun being a southern man and the majority of that cabinet southern he car ried the day and texas was lost i was not then in public life but i wrote against that act blaming mr adams when i should have blamed mr calhoun by that cession the expansion of slavery was stopped ; the growth of slave states in the southwest was stopped ; three hundred and fifty thousand square miles subject to american slavery was cut off from ame rican dominion and presented to a foreign king this was another great gratifica tion to the abolitionists ; but it was not all there was a strip of land about large enough for two states lying upon the arkansas and red rivers and between texas and the 30 deg 30 min of north latitude this strip having escaped the compromise line on one side and the texas cession on the other was open to the formation of two respectable slave states mr calhoun was then still cab inet minister â€” secretary at war â€” had the indians under his care â€” and was riding the hobby of their civilization he re quired this strip to be given up to the in dians for their permanent abode and thus it also was lost to the slave states all louisiana was then gone from them except the fragment which was contained in the stales of missouri and louisiana and in the territory of arkansas even this fragment appeared to be too much to be left to the slave states and a slice forty miles wide and three hundred miles long was cut off from arkansas and given to the indians ; and the slaveholders with the slaves upon lhe slice were required to remove from the cut off part and fall lack within the contracted limits this was done by the indian treaty â€” the treaty negotiated by a protege of mr calhoun's he was then \ ice president of the i i ted states and president ofthe senate â€” i was a member of the senate â€” opposed to the ratification of this treaty â€” and came within one or two votes of defeat ing it the slightest help from mr cal houn would have defeated it and saved the slave state of arkansas that territory and those salt springs the loss of which she now has to lament taken all toge ther â€” the compromise the texas cession â€” the indian domain and the slice from arkansas and mr calhoun did more in less time to abolish slavery diminish its area and increase that of free soil than any man that has ever appeared on the face of the earth ; and of this lhe anti slave party of the north were fully sensi ble and duly grateful they gave proof of their gratitude mr calhoun was then candidate for vice president of the uni ted slates ; he became the favorite of the north â€” beatingeven mr adams himself on the free soil track he beat him six votes in new york ran head and neck with him through new hampshire vermont and rhode island â€” was even through massachusetts â€” and came a nose ahead on the northern track he actually beat mr adams in abolition states anil with justice he had done more than him for free soil antl with more merit being him self an inhabitant of slave soil i told him all this in my first calhouniac in the senate of the united states four days af ter he put in his fire brand resolutions in my speech to show him to be the true au thor of the mexican war the first thing which struck us on read ing the first extract was the utter want of memory manifested by mr calhoun with regard to the circumstances attend ing the admission of missouri and the exceedingly awkward predicament in which it places him that he did give his opinion in favor of the power of con gress to exclude slavery from the territo ries seems fo be established by a mass of testimony which it is impossible to resist if we recollect however mr c claims irresponsibility for all acts done before he arrived at the age of forty though before that time had been a candidate for the presidency when the idea of divorcing bank and state was broached at the ex . tra session of 1837 and mr calhoun had become a friend of it his speech in favor of the bank in 1810 was cast up to him he insisted if we remember that he had on that occasion contended for the same principle but when his speech was re published from the files of the intelligen cer it was not to be found in it though it had been reported by mr gales one of the most accurate stenographers that ever had a seat on the floor of either house it is to our minds perfectly evident that mr calhoun has as he is here charged by col benton been of more service to the free soil party than any other man now living we are far from attributing to him any improper motive in giving his decision in favor of the missouri compro mise by which in all human probability '.. the union was preserved ; yet his blind est admirer cannot shut his eyes to the glaring inconsistency of which he is guil ty in charging with treason to the south all those who refused to declare war a gainst the union on the ground of oppo sition to a principle which he himself had been among the first to recognise the time at which this recognition was made is not the least remarkable of all the things connected with this subject the doctrine that congress has no right to pro hibit slavery in the territories is not as col benton supposes " recently invent ed it was well understood at the very time when mr c gave this cabinet opin ion in the debate on the missouri ques tion charles cortesworth pinckney rep resenting mr calhoun's own state in the senate of the united states in a speech among the first if not the very first de livered on the southern side took the broad ground not only that congress had no right to restrict slavery in the territo ries but that the ordinance of 1787 re lied on the support such an opinion was an arbitrary exercise of power not grant ed by the state of virginia in her act of cession of the northwest territory that the congress enjoyed no such power un der the articles of confederation which were in operation at the time of the ces sionâ€”that the legislature of virginia by its act of 17s8 recognized no such power and that the confirmatory act of con gress of 1789 was illegal because the new constitution by virtue of which con gress was then in session conferred upon it no such power ! we know not wheth er this speech was made before the cabi net opinion of mr calhoun was given or not but we do know that mr l'inckney expressed the general opinion of lhe south such as it was then and as it has contin ued to this day it is fair to presume iherefore that he could not have been ig norant of it or unaffected by it if under these circumstances there has been any treachery to the south we ask who has been the traitor 7 is it the man who conceived the treason and put it in execution thirty years ago or is it he who misled by his great name and blinded by his example followed in his footsteps but six months ago ?â€” richmond whig love well whip c!l iteptrut of the committee on ihe state of tbe church wilh lhe proceedings thereon â€” published by the or der of the thirty third convenlion held in st luke's church salisbury n c the committee on lhe stale of lhe church respectfully report : that from lhe bishop's address and the parochial reports presented to ihis convenlion they find the dootber ml baptisms to hare been â€” adults 144 children 4(10 in all 604 confirmations communicant 212 i candidates for orders 6 number of clergy presbyters 34 deacons g making with the bishop in all i 41 churches consecrated ' _ ordinations presbyters 5 deacon 1 total 0 these statistics being compared with thos ol 1,-17 there being none given in the re port of l848 show an increase of 11 of the clergy of 25a communicants 22s baptisms v ' the committee find ?::_!> cause ol thankfulness to god lor these manifestations l tin church's increase ihey deplore the exist ence among its members of great agitation sn i alarm aii-.ir from tin impression thai trim have been preached not in accordance id the liturgy and articles of this church and that ceremonies and practices have b introduced either unautl rizÂ«*d by the customs ol this church or in plain violation of its m lacs as it is not the business ofthe com mittee lo say ihey do n<>i say whether or n : such doctrines have been preached or such practices introduced ; bul v state as thei full conviction that whelhei the case be so i not the far greater p trl of ihe clergy are en lirely opposed to any such departure from tl â€¢ doctrines of he church thai they desire the introduction of no ceremonies unauthorized â– the customs of this church and are still ss tolerant of such as violate the rubies am - er cause of alarm as the committee believe has been found in th supposition lhat a society has existed in this diocese whose character rules and practices are af variance with the spirit if not with lhe laws oflhia church the committee have assurance on which they en tirely rely that no such society is at present in existence in this diocese r s mason chairman bkethhi'x of tiii click y : in lhe report on lhe state of lhe church made by member ol your order reference is made to excitement in the diocese growing oul ofthe idea that dor triues are promulged and practices encouraged among us more or less repugnant to the an thorized doctrines an 1 usages of our branch ol the church as these doctrines and practice are not specified your bishop can address yow only in general terms but he does byway ,, charge hereby address you and authorize you when you return to your several parishes to as sure your people that no efforts shall bo wantiu on his part so long as god may give bim jurisdic tion in north carolina to hinder lhe inculca tion of any doctrine or the introduction of any praciice â€” come from whatever quarter il may â€” not iu strict accordance wilh the liturgy ol our church as illustrated and defined by those standards of interpretation authorized by the church itself in respect to a particular question which has agitated the dioce3e of late the question of auricular confession i may here express my conviction that tho book of common prayfcr our standard of doctiine discipline and worship does not authorize any clergyman el this church lo teach or enforce such conies ion as necessary to salvation ; and that lhe on ly confession which il authorises is the volun tary confession of lhe penitent in accordance with the exortation in lhe office for the holy communion l silliman iv fs bishop of iorlh carolina whereas in the report of the committee on the slate ofthe church mention is made of certain rumors of doctrine not in accordance with lhe principles ofthe protestant episcopal church : and whereat while in lhe opinion of ihis convention lhe church encourages her members to seek whenever necessary tho godly counsel and advice of her pastors yet she no where require the practice of auricular and confession and private absolution : and where as in the language of the late bishop hobart the church ol rome makes auricular c i fession the private confession to lhe prie.t by every individual of all his sins of thought word and deed an indispensable r ndii ion of forgive ness â€” the churchman justly deems auricular confession and private absolution and en croachment on the rights of conscience â€” an in vasion of the prerogative of the searcher ol hearts â€” and with some exceptions hostile lo domestic and social happiness and licentious and corrupting in iis tendency :" and whereas a communication from the right rev bishop of this diocese has been made to the clergy during this convention txpressing his views which this convenlion have heatd with great satisfaction and to which they desire to give extended circularion therefore resolved that 1000 copies of the report of lhe commillee on lbe state of the church together with lhe charge of the bishop and this preamble be published in pamphlet f rm 1 and distributed by the secretary to the ditler ent parishes from th minutes edward lee winslow secretary a gbeat state o'd massachusetts says an exchange h is ever taken the lead in what is good useful and profitable she established the fi.o>t school iu the united states th â– l academy the first college she set up i..e fir.t press printed the first book and lhe first newspaper site plant ' ed ihe first apple tree and caught the brsl whale she coined the firsi money and hoist ed the first national flag she made the first canal and the first rail road she invented the first mouse-trap and washing machine and sent the firsi ship to discover islands nents in u.e south sea she produced the first philosopher and made the first pin she fired the firsi gun in the revobtionairi gave john bull his first beating and put her hand fi he declaration ol independence bhe i ed yankee dÂ»Â»d!e and gave a tÂ»aine for r t0 the ** universal yankee n ition i ruiy a great stale is massachusetts more plaxbts another new plane has been discovered by sig espairs a neapobÂ«Â»n astronomer this is tbe ninth new beaveo.y body which bas been added to the solar system , by the discoveries ofthe last four years

terms of the watcliiuau ..,.,... year two dollars payable in bni if not paid in advance two dollars nd fifty cts will be charged ,_.. o cements inserted it $ i for the first and 25 ck . sequent insertion court orders charged gsrct higher than these rates a liberal deduc :,. those who advertise by the year rs to the editors inn '"â€¢ p"ft l'a"1 tu treat peacli trees the peach trees are only of a few years duration now after which they wither and die it bas been suggested that grubs are the cause of this early decay and that they can be destroyed by removing the ground around the root of the tree and adding wood ashes or newly burnt lime which should be left till fall and then removed so that the frost can get to them 11 this is properly managed the latter will effect the destruction ofthe worms without in juring the ue-c the above receipt for destroying the grubs in peach trees we find is going the rounds of the newspapers ; and as we tried the experiment and know some of iis practical effects it is not amiss to relate our experience we made the application of wood ashes to some half o young trees this spring first scrap | ua away the ground around the root of the trees as ahove described soon after i aves put out we discovered that all was not right they commenced crisp ing or curling and continued to grow worse and worse after a while a small rcdish brown insect with barely percep tible animal life made its appearance on thi leaves lv - : and as they â– lowly disappeared l leaves began to droop taking tbe alarm we forthwith removed the ashes from the roots to re turn the soil ; and in doing so found the roots highly colored by the effects of the ashes and the hark so tender that it was easily removed with the finger nail we were too late : the ashes had done the work . the leaves withered and dried up and our trees the subject of two or three years attention were all killed but we are not convinced nevertheless that he bad effects of the ashes in this case must necessary attend its applica ; tion in all cases but we are convinced however that a caution against using too ' much ashes should accompany this re | ceipl they should be applied sparingly i otherwise unless the trees are large mis will ensue we would not risk more ! than a half pint to each tree of one or two i wth < mil ones will bare more : hen full grown we have found lhat . on is not too much t uon blossoms we have received from mr lb fi _ rr.ii of mount mourne iredell ; i county a cotton blossom which must have l on the 28th june this is early win we consider the backwardness of .:. the late frost cv_c the ear ms reported to us last vear were h mi it s mel-._n7.ir ; and they opened j on un same day the 28th june so that vv should suppose there is no very ma | terence between the prospect of . the cotton crop in this section of country : ar and that of last year at a corres ! ng period of its growth we learn ; otton blossoms are very plenty in the fersey settlement in davidson coun . tv and that they were probably in ad vance of mr ueid be this as it may mr 11 has offered the lust evidence that they ar put and is therefore entitled lo the lionoi of producing the lirst one prospectuses â€” we have received at our office within the last two or three months several different prospectuses of papers now published and proposed to be published in north carolina which in point of workmanship would have been a disgrace to any printing office in the state twenty years ago we take occa sion ro notify those therefore who may hereafter wish to put out such papers that 1 thev will send uscripts to this office we will do them â– _ a job that will at least look respectable riots in philadelphia â€” the city of philadelphia appeals to be infested with i worse class of rowdies than even new t'orfc almost every sunday witnesses a riot between the rival lire eampanies â– lire occurs on that day it is a matter of course that a fight follows : and fre itly when there is no liie a false a iannis raised that tbe firemen may as and the usual treat be enjoyed â€” a heads and bloody noses are the common results but on sunday the 17th he exhibition was on a grander scale as will be seen by the following account : â€” philadelphia june 17 ippearsthat during the alarm of fire morning the adherants of ihe mova company seized the carriage of clin company and threw it into â€¢â€¢'' d laware about noon the friends ol klin collect d in considerable look possession of the en s'ne house of the movamensing compa rhis led to a desperate and deadly slruggle both parties being armed with muskets knives and various descriptions of missiles they went into the fight !' the precision and coolness of soldiers e movamensing party being headed by perate set known as " killers narched up to each other in reg and alter having discharg bruner & james ) / " k_e a check l.ton alt vouk editors j proprietors ) rulers ( new series do this and liberty is sarc < geul harrison ( volume vi number 9 salisbury n c thursday july 5 1849 ed their guns went at it with dirks knives and clubs a man by the name of gillis who was leading the franklin company was shot through the heart and instantly killed â€” about 15 were wounded some danger ously the fight lasted an hour and a half the line of combatants stretching from the corner of 8th and fitzwater to broad street the residents of which were much alarmed two men suspected of being the mur derers of gillis are in custody the only arrests that have been made as yet though the mayor and sheriff have a large posse in pursuit of the rioters col benton and mr calhoun we subjoin farther extracts from the i speech of col benton they will not : fail to attract the attention of the reader i and if we are not mistaken to convince him that the memory of mr calhoun where his own acts are concerned is at least as treacherous as it is extraordinary the copy from which we extract is not a full report of benton's speech it is fur ', nished by the courier & enquirer and the substance of some portions as the reader will see is given in brief by the ! editors the first portion which we shall quote relates to the missouri question and j is in the words of the courier e enquirer : 'â– in 1820 he says mr calhoun being | a member of president monroe's cabinet j was required to give his opinion in writ i ing on the question of the power of con j gress to prohibit slavery in territories and { on the constitutionality of the 8ih section of the act for the admission of missouri i into the union and which section applied ' the anti-slavery clause of the ordinance j of 1787 to more than half of the whole \ territory of louisiana mr calhoun ' then gave his written opinion in favor of the constitutionality of the act and no whisper was ever heard from him to the contrary until the introduction of his fire brand resolutions twenty seven years af ' ter these resolutions mr benton says were introduced by mr calhoun to make a test for himself at the presidential elec j tion which no northern man could stand j before the debate came on however the proofs of the opinion which mr calhoun gave in 1820 were brought forward to his i utter confusion and the entire prostration of his resolutions these proofs consist ed oi the original interrogation propound ed to his cabinet by mr monroe in his own handwriting and the draft of a letter from him to a friend stating that these questions were answered affirmatively by , every member of the cabinet mr cal j houn of course included in addition to these records is a passage from the diary ' of j q adams stating the same facts concerning the action of the members of mr monroe's cabinet these testimo nies mr benton insists is overwhelming mr calhoun attempts to escape it hy say ing that missouri at the preceding ses sion had presented herself for adminission as a member of the union she had form ed a constitution and government in ac cordance with an act of congress her admission was refused on the ground that her constitution admitted of slavery and she was remanded back to have the ob jectionable provision expunged she re fused to comply with the requisition and ut the next session again knocked at the door of congress for admission with her constitution as it originally stood mr calhoun says that missouri was then a state â€” that if refused admission to the union she would still have been a state independent of the union and the proba hie centre of a new confederacy none were willing to contribute to such a re sult and to avoid it the northern mem bers opposed to her admission were forc ed to propose a compromise which the south accepted mr benton says that every part of this statement is erroneous and to such a de gree as to destroy all reliance upon mr calhoun's memory lie says that during the compromise session he c mr lowndes resided together and that at the preceding session missouri had presented her consti tution made under the act ot congress and applied for admission into the union now this is error the constitution of missouri followed and did not precede the compromise act that act was pass ed march 6th 1820 the constitution fram ed under it was signed july 19th of the same year : and was presented to con gress in the month of november follow ingâ€”congress in that year having met on the second monday in november â€” here then is an error of a year in point of time and a transposition of events in point of fact the constitution of mis souri was made aftei the compromise and in pursuance of it ; and not to know ihat much was to know nothing at all about it mr calhoun says the admission was re lused.and the constitution remanded back because it admitted slavery in missouri this is great error the act of congress under which the missouri constitution was made admitted slavery it missouri and lur constitution could noi he and was not refused on that ground the admis sion was not refused for that cause nor for any thing like it nor for any thing in relation to slavery but the direct oppo site â€” for a clause in relation to free peo ple of color and by which it was con tended the citizens of other states might be prevented from removing to the state of missouri the clause was this to prevent free negroes and mulattos from coming to and settling in this state un der any pretext whatever the provi sion was found in clause 4 section 20 of article 3 of the constitution and was ob jected to as being inconsistent with the constitution of the united states and the , rights of the states as in some of those states free people of color might be citi zens this was the clause objected to and not the one sanctioning slavery mr calhoun says the constitution was reman ded back to the state to have the slavery clause expunged it was not remanded for the purpose of having any thing ex punged but the contrary â€” to have some thing added â€” to obtain the legislative as sent of the state to the joint resolution of the two houses of congress declaring that the clause in question should never be so construed as to exclude from settle ment and the rights of citizenship the citizens of other states emigrating to mis souri mr calhoun says the state refused to comply with the requisition of congress this is more error the state complied immediately ; the legislative assent to the required construction of the objectionable clause being given on the 20th day of june in the same year he says the state knocked again with her constitution at the door of congress at the next ses ' sion and that this gave rise to the most agitating discussion that ever took place in congress this is the very error of the ; moon the state never applied to con j gress again but was admitted in the re cess and before next meeting of congress and by proclamation from president mon roe the proclamation was issued the 10th of august 18:20 in pursuance to the joint resolution of congress of the 2d of march of that year expressly framed to save the state from applying to congress again by referring it to the president to proclaim her admission as soon as she as sented to the required construction of the . obnoxious article the fact is that con i gress did not refuse to admit the state at j all ; on the contrary passed a joint reso j lution at her first session of the presenta ' tion ofthe constitution for her admission " on a certain condition â€” on compliance ; with which condition her admission was to be complete without further proceed , ing on the part of congress and was to be j so proclaimed by the president all this appears in the legislative history of the \ country and was authentically recited in â€¢ the proclamation issued on the occasion now this proclamation was issued from the cabinet of which mr calhoun was a member and appear to have been as completely forgotten by him as was the ; cabinet decision of the same year in fa i vor of the power of congress to legislate upon the subject of slavery in territories j and to abolish it in territories ; for that was the effect of the compromise act of 1820 he actually forgets that missouri was admitted upon a proclamation issued from the cabinet council of which he was ! a member ! and goes on to substitute the | wanderings of his imagination for the le gislative history of the country in giving a supposed circumstantial account of what took place between himself and mr lowndes after the second rejection of the missouri constitution and which led to the conclusions which according to him produced the compromise " to back out or compromise was the only alternative left ; and the latter was eagerly seized upon to avoid the disgrace of the former so says mr calhoun ; and so saying : he postpones the compromise a whole year and couples it with an event to which it does not belong and makes it the effect of a cause which never existed it is postponed from the session 19-'20 to the session 20'21 ; and it is connected with the final admission of missouri after she had become a state instead of being con nected with the preliminary act which authorized her to form a state constitu tion never was such blundering seen 1 we next have a parallel between the missouri compromise and the wilmot proviso : mr benton after thus establishing the fact that mr calhoun gave his sanction to the compromise act which admitted missouri goes on to show that it is in the very words of the wilmol proviso he thinks therefore that this should be called the calhoun proviso because mr cal houn was nearly thirty years ahead of wilmot in its support because his posi tion was then higher being a member of the cabinet because he was successful and mr wilm t was not and finally be cause wilmot's proviso is a weak contri vance to prevent slavery from being where it is not and where it never will be â€” while calhoun's proviso was a manly blow to kill slavery where it then existed by law and where it would now exist in point of fact if that blow had not been struck the proviso of mr calhoun ac tually abolished slavery where it existed by law in all the upper half of louisia na â€” from otj â€” 30 to 49 and from the mis sissippi to the rocky mountains â€” over a territory nearly a thousand miles square â€” nearly a million square miles â€” enough to make twenty states of 50,000 square miles each â€” more in fact than all califor nia and new mexico and oregon put to gether over all this vast territory the proviso supported by calhoun abolished slavery â€” abolished it then exjsting by law and shut it up from the slave emi gration of the south and now what be comes of the dogma in his mouth and that of his followers so recently invented of no power in congress to legislate upon the subject of slavery in territories â€” what becomes in their mouths of the new fangled point of honor just felt for the first time in thirty years of insult to slave states in their exclusion from set tlement to the territories bought by the blood and treasure of the whole union ? louisiana was a territory and congress legislated upon slavery out of a million of square miles of it and mr calhoun sup ported that legislation louisiana was a territory acquired by the treasure if not by the blood ofthe whole union ; and the proviso of 1820 supported by mr cal houn shut up one half of it from slave emigration if that is insult he and his followers have stood being insulted most remarkably well for about thirty years ; and perhaps would consult their own self respect and lose nothing in public opin ; ion if they should continue standing it with like fortitude for the remainder of their lives this action of mr calhoun is quoted to shut the mouths of mr c and his follow \ ers : . " he proceeds to say that in giving his ' cabinet support where his voice was so potential to the abolition of slavery over a million of square miles in louisiana mr calhoun did more than any one man has ever done towards abolishing slavery in the world holding as he then did i the one fifth part of the veto power and commanding as his position was as a southern man and a cabinet minister â€” the largest question ever started of free or slave soil was then in his hands ; and he decided it in favor of free it was an immense boon to the anti slavery party then so numerous and ardent ; but it was not the only service which he rendered them texas was then ours â€” a part of louisiana â€” to the lower rio grande ; â€” â– large enough to form six great or ten com ! mon states it was all slave territory and looked to as the natural outlet of the southern states with their great increas ing slave population it was given to the king of spain â€” given away by treaty and that treaty the work of mr monroe's cabinet â€” mr calhoun being a member and here there is no room for denial and , non-recollection for a long time mr adams bore the blame of that cession a friend of mr calhoun reproached him with it in the house of representatives \ mr adams was then alive and present and soon vindicated the truth of history he showed that there was a divisinn in the cabinet upon the point ; he was a gainst it â€” mr calhoun for it â€” and mr calhoun being a southern man and the majority of that cabinet southern he car ried the day and texas was lost i was not then in public life but i wrote against that act blaming mr adams when i should have blamed mr calhoun by that cession the expansion of slavery was stopped ; the growth of slave states in the southwest was stopped ; three hundred and fifty thousand square miles subject to american slavery was cut off from ame rican dominion and presented to a foreign king this was another great gratifica tion to the abolitionists ; but it was not all there was a strip of land about large enough for two states lying upon the arkansas and red rivers and between texas and the 30 deg 30 min of north latitude this strip having escaped the compromise line on one side and the texas cession on the other was open to the formation of two respectable slave states mr calhoun was then still cab inet minister â€” secretary at war â€” had the indians under his care â€” and was riding the hobby of their civilization he re quired this strip to be given up to the in dians for their permanent abode and thus it also was lost to the slave states all louisiana was then gone from them except the fragment which was contained in the stales of missouri and louisiana and in the territory of arkansas even this fragment appeared to be too much to be left to the slave states and a slice forty miles wide and three hundred miles long was cut off from arkansas and given to the indians ; and the slaveholders with the slaves upon lhe slice were required to remove from the cut off part and fall lack within the contracted limits this was done by the indian treaty â€” the treaty negotiated by a protege of mr calhoun's he was then \ ice president of the i i ted states and president ofthe senate â€” i was a member of the senate â€” opposed to the ratification of this treaty â€” and came within one or two votes of defeat ing it the slightest help from mr cal houn would have defeated it and saved the slave state of arkansas that territory and those salt springs the loss of which she now has to lament taken all toge ther â€” the compromise the texas cession â€” the indian domain and the slice from arkansas and mr calhoun did more in less time to abolish slavery diminish its area and increase that of free soil than any man that has ever appeared on the face of the earth ; and of this lhe anti slave party of the north were fully sensi ble and duly grateful they gave proof of their gratitude mr calhoun was then candidate for vice president of the uni ted slates ; he became the favorite of the north â€” beatingeven mr adams himself on the free soil track he beat him six votes in new york ran head and neck with him through new hampshire vermont and rhode island â€” was even through massachusetts â€” and came a nose ahead on the northern track he actually beat mr adams in abolition states anil with justice he had done more than him for free soil antl with more merit being him self an inhabitant of slave soil i told him all this in my first calhouniac in the senate of the united states four days af ter he put in his fire brand resolutions in my speech to show him to be the true au thor of the mexican war the first thing which struck us on read ing the first extract was the utter want of memory manifested by mr calhoun with regard to the circumstances attend ing the admission of missouri and the exceedingly awkward predicament in which it places him that he did give his opinion in favor of the power of con gress to exclude slavery from the territo ries seems fo be established by a mass of testimony which it is impossible to resist if we recollect however mr c claims irresponsibility for all acts done before he arrived at the age of forty though before that time had been a candidate for the presidency when the idea of divorcing bank and state was broached at the ex . tra session of 1837 and mr calhoun had become a friend of it his speech in favor of the bank in 1810 was cast up to him he insisted if we remember that he had on that occasion contended for the same principle but when his speech was re published from the files of the intelligen cer it was not to be found in it though it had been reported by mr gales one of the most accurate stenographers that ever had a seat on the floor of either house it is to our minds perfectly evident that mr calhoun has as he is here charged by col benton been of more service to the free soil party than any other man now living we are far from attributing to him any improper motive in giving his decision in favor of the missouri compro mise by which in all human probability '.. the union was preserved ; yet his blind est admirer cannot shut his eyes to the glaring inconsistency of which he is guil ty in charging with treason to the south all those who refused to declare war a gainst the union on the ground of oppo sition to a principle which he himself had been among the first to recognise the time at which this recognition was made is not the least remarkable of all the things connected with this subject the doctrine that congress has no right to pro hibit slavery in the territories is not as col benton supposes " recently invent ed it was well understood at the very time when mr c gave this cabinet opin ion in the debate on the missouri ques tion charles cortesworth pinckney rep resenting mr calhoun's own state in the senate of the united states in a speech among the first if not the very first de livered on the southern side took the broad ground not only that congress had no right to restrict slavery in the territo ries but that the ordinance of 1787 re lied on the support such an opinion was an arbitrary exercise of power not grant ed by the state of virginia in her act of cession of the northwest territory that the congress enjoyed no such power un der the articles of confederation which were in operation at the time of the ces sionâ€”that the legislature of virginia by its act of 17s8 recognized no such power and that the confirmatory act of con gress of 1789 was illegal because the new constitution by virtue of which con gress was then in session conferred upon it no such power ! we know not wheth er this speech was made before the cabi net opinion of mr calhoun was given or not but we do know that mr l'inckney expressed the general opinion of lhe south such as it was then and as it has contin ued to this day it is fair to presume iherefore that he could not have been ig norant of it or unaffected by it if under these circumstances there has been any treachery to the south we ask who has been the traitor 7 is it the man who conceived the treason and put it in execution thirty years ago or is it he who misled by his great name and blinded by his example followed in his footsteps but six months ago ?â€” richmond whig love well whip c!l iteptrut of the committee on ihe state of tbe church wilh lhe proceedings thereon â€” published by the or der of the thirty third convenlion held in st luke's church salisbury n c the committee on lhe stale of lhe church respectfully report : that from lhe bishop's address and the parochial reports presented to ihis convenlion they find the dootber ml baptisms to hare been â€” adults 144 children 4(10 in all 604 confirmations communicant 212 i candidates for orders 6 number of clergy presbyters 34 deacons g making with the bishop in all i 41 churches consecrated ' _ ordinations presbyters 5 deacon 1 total 0 these statistics being compared with thos ol 1,-17 there being none given in the re port of l848 show an increase of 11 of the clergy of 25a communicants 22s baptisms v ' the committee find ?::_!> cause ol thankfulness to god lor these manifestations l tin church's increase ihey deplore the exist ence among its members of great agitation sn i alarm aii-.ir from tin impression thai trim have been preached not in accordance id the liturgy and articles of this church and that ceremonies and practices have b introduced either unautl rizÂ«*d by the customs ol this church or in plain violation of its m lacs as it is not the business ofthe com mittee lo say ihey do n<>i say whether or n : such doctrines have been preached or such practices introduced ; bul v state as thei full conviction that whelhei the case be so i not the far greater p trl of ihe clergy are en lirely opposed to any such departure from tl â€¢ doctrines of he church thai they desire the introduction of no ceremonies unauthorized â– the customs of this church and are still ss tolerant of such as violate the rubies am - er cause of alarm as the committee believe has been found in th supposition lhat a society has existed in this diocese whose character rules and practices are af variance with the spirit if not with lhe laws oflhia church the committee have assurance on which they en tirely rely that no such society is at present in existence in this diocese r s mason chairman bkethhi'x of tiii click y : in lhe report on lhe state of lhe church made by member ol your order reference is made to excitement in the diocese growing oul ofthe idea that dor triues are promulged and practices encouraged among us more or less repugnant to the an thorized doctrines an 1 usages of our branch ol the church as these doctrines and practice are not specified your bishop can address yow only in general terms but he does byway ,, charge hereby address you and authorize you when you return to your several parishes to as sure your people that no efforts shall bo wantiu on his part so long as god may give bim jurisdic tion in north carolina to hinder lhe inculca tion of any doctrine or the introduction of any praciice â€” come from whatever quarter il may â€” not iu strict accordance wilh the liturgy ol our church as illustrated and defined by those standards of interpretation authorized by the church itself in respect to a particular question which has agitated the dioce3e of late the question of auricular confession i may here express my conviction that tho book of common prayfcr our standard of doctiine discipline and worship does not authorize any clergyman el this church lo teach or enforce such conies ion as necessary to salvation ; and that lhe on ly confession which il authorises is the volun tary confession of lhe penitent in accordance with the exortation in lhe office for the holy communion l silliman iv fs bishop of iorlh carolina whereas in the report of the committee on the slate ofthe church mention is made of certain rumors of doctrine not in accordance with lhe principles ofthe protestant episcopal church : and whereat while in lhe opinion of ihis convention lhe church encourages her members to seek whenever necessary tho godly counsel and advice of her pastors yet she no where require the practice of auricular and confession and private absolution : and where as in the language of the late bishop hobart the church ol rome makes auricular c i fession the private confession to lhe prie.t by every individual of all his sins of thought word and deed an indispensable r ndii ion of forgive ness â€” the churchman justly deems auricular confession and private absolution and en croachment on the rights of conscience â€” an in vasion of the prerogative of the searcher ol hearts â€” and with some exceptions hostile lo domestic and social happiness and licentious and corrupting in iis tendency :" and whereas a communication from the right rev bishop of this diocese has been made to the clergy during this convention txpressing his views which this convenlion have heatd with great satisfaction and to which they desire to give extended circularion therefore resolved that 1000 copies of the report of lhe commillee on lbe state of the church together with lhe charge of the bishop and this preamble be published in pamphlet f rm 1 and distributed by the secretary to the ditler ent parishes from th minutes edward lee winslow secretary a gbeat state o'd massachusetts says an exchange h is ever taken the lead in what is good useful and profitable she established the fi.o>t school iu the united states th â– l academy the first college she set up i..e fir.t press printed the first book and lhe first newspaper site plant ' ed ihe first apple tree and caught the brsl whale she coined the firsi money and hoist ed the first national flag she made the first canal and the first rail road she invented the first mouse-trap and washing machine and sent the firsi ship to discover islands nents in u.e south sea she produced the first philosopher and made the first pin she fired the firsi gun in the revobtionairi gave john bull his first beating and put her hand fi he declaration ol independence bhe i ed yankee dÂ»Â»d!e and gave a tÂ»aine for r t0 the ** universal yankee n ition i ruiy a great stale is massachusetts more plaxbts another new plane has been discovered by sig espairs a neapobÂ«Â»n astronomer this is tbe ninth new beaveo.y body which bas been added to the solar system , by the discoveries ofthe last four years